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It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important — Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear and dread of some ter — Hermann Hesse, Demian. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
Novelists when they write novels tend to take an almost godlike attitude toward their subject, pretending to a total com — Hermann Hesse, Demian. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
Teachers dread nothing so much as unusual characteristics in precocious boys during the initial stages of their adolesce — Hermann Hesse, Beneath the Wheel
It was fortunate that love did not need words — or else it would be full of misunderstanding and foolishness.
At one time I had given much thought to why men were so very rarely capable of living for an ideal. Now I saw that many, — Hermann Hesse, Demian. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
When a tree is polled, it will sprout new shoots nearer its roots. A soul that is ruined in the bud will frequently retu — Hermann Hesse, Beneath the Wheel
We who bore the mark might well be considered by the rest of the world as strange, even as insane and dangerous. We had — Hermann Hesse, Demian. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
I realize that some people will not believe that a child of little more than ten years is capable of having such feeling — Hermann Hesse, Demian. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
It is wrong to say that schoolmasters lack heart and are dried-up, soulless pedants! No, by no means. When a child's tal — Hermann Hesse, Beneath the Wheel
...the opposite of every truth is just as true! That is to say, any truth can only be expressed and put into words when — Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
At Night on the High SeasAt night, when the sea cradles meAnd the pale star gleamLies down on its broad waves,Then I fre — Hermann Hesse
He raised himself above her pallid face and kissed her on both closed eyes and thought: she thinks she is taking and doe — in her loneliness she has fled to me and does not suspect my loneliness.
For it cannot be denied that all over the world and in all ages there are beings who are perceived to be extraordinary, — Hermann Hesse, Pictor's Metamorphoses and Other Fantasies
Youth ends when egotism does — maturity begins when one lives for others.
Merchant: 'So you have lived on the possessions of others?'Saddhartha: 'Apparently. The merchant also lives on the posse — Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
And so Gotama wandered into the town to obtain alms, and the two Samanas recognized him only by his complete peacefulnes — Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no — Hermann Hesse, Demian. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, who ever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. Th — Hermann Hesse